Re: How to deploy a 24hrs , 7 days a week kind of database environment?

Good question.

I was not the person to decide this, coming from a mostly UNIX environment I probably would have recommended UNIX. Unfortunately, the client was shown a working version of this product on an NT box running SQL Server. Once the client liked what they saw, the company I contract to was only given a budget to convert the database to Oracle, not the server application to UNIX.

I, in constant quest of knowledge, took on this mission to learn Oracle8 and NT (and add a 3rd platform to my Oracle installs - after all I'm an Oracle DBA, not a System administrator.) And weather I or you like it or not, Managers and the people with the Budgets are choosing NT.

Not many years ago, this was a similar battle between MainFrame heads and the so-called UNIX bigots (back then UNIX boxes couldn't handle the horsepower or diskstorage of MainFrames, they were much less stable; Heck, they're just now coming up with decent clustering solutions.) Hell, if I had it my way, we'd all be running Macintosh Clients off of VMS machines!

In any case, Oracle's Advanced Replication coupled with Full-Time Software's (Formerly Qualix's) failover software and two top of the line Intel-based servers (per logical node) provide enough resistance to downtime.

Hope that covers it,
Frank

In article <71qhlk$vf1$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>,   satar_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Frank,
>
> I don't want to make this an UNIX vs NT debate, so I won't reply to your
> Post. What I do want is...Based on your year(s) of experience, why would you
> put a 24x7 database (in your case, I am to assume that downtime is
> unacceptable) on an NT box? I can understand in situations where the Company
> doesn't have the budget for implementing an UNIX solution, nor the means of
> hireing an UNIX sys admin, but it seems this is not the case in your
> situation. Are you getting a kick back from Bill Gates or something?
>
> I, in no way, mean to insult you. I merely want to understand your situation
> and your view on this matter. I will take your reply into consideration.
>
> Thank you in advance for your reply...
> Satar
>

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